More than a few of my fellow Wake County residents bristled at our liberal friend Chris Fitzsimon’s response to Allison Backhouse’s N&O article ” The Changes Wake Schools Need” (Citizen comments to Fitzsimon article here). While I too have problems with much of what Fitzsimon says, my biggest problem concerns the the following statement: Backhouse also forgets to cite [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2009
- Aug26
Sen. Soles (D-Columbus) Update, More Bizarre
Everyone related to the recent shooting of Kyle Blackburn on the property of RC Soles is remaining pretty tight lipped. Blackburn has retained an attorney and Soles is one. In fact, Soles is also representing Blackburn on another matter later on. And Soles fired two shots, but despite an extensive surveillance system, somehow the front [...]
- Aug26
A very long to do list
Drafting Musings, a political blog, reports that today is day 15 of the 30 days given to Governor Purdue to sign bills passed by the General Assembly. She may be halfway to the target date of September 10th but her work is far from over as there remains 108 bills on her desk to be signed. [...]
- Aug26
The Trouble With Trillions
Recent news stories have well documented the blunders being made by government money counters. We’ve seen projected deficits soar from $4 trillion to $7 trillion and some estimates even go as high as $9 trillion. Sadly, even those projections are somewhat rosy according to some because they rely on additional estimates that don’t really have [...]
- Aug26
Massive Deficit Spending to Hurt Nation’s Poor
The N&O reports on the latest federal budget deficit projections: In a chilling forecast, the White House is predicting a 10-year federal deficit of $9 trillion — more than the sum of all previous deficits since America’s founding. That amount is also roughly equal to $29,000 for every man, woman and child in the U.S. [...]
- Aug25
No Tuition Breaks for UNC Athletes
Joe Neff’s article in this morning’s News & Observer gets it right: the real impact of the UNC tuition break for athletic and academic scholarships has been to increase the percentage of out-of-state students and make it harder for average students to gain admission to places like UNC-Chapel Hill. During the last budget cycle, UNC institutions [...]
- 1Aug25
“Cash Strapped”? Puh-lease.
In another attempt at over-sensationalizing the news (and completely blowing things out of proportion), WRAL’s story on the first day of traditional calendar classes in Wake County reads: “Students return to cash-strapped schools.” We’ve all heard about the budget cuts, but “cash strapped” is just not accurate and completely off-base. The WCPSS 2009-2010 budget (p. [...]
- 1Aug25
Abortion Coverage Misinformation Continues
A new article in Time (read it here) calls out the President for misinforming the public about abortion coverage and the public option health care plan. “You’ve heard that this is all going to mean government funding of abortion,” Obama said recently in a call to religious leaders. “Not true.” The article provides a detailed [...]
- Aug25
Surprise! Bureaucratic Program Bogged Down by Bureaucracy
The “wildly successful” Cash for Clunkers program is creating major headaches for auto dealers, even in the Triangle. As noted in this WRAL.com story: “We sold a lot of cars. The program was successful, and the only part that is a downfall is getting the money from the government. It’s been very slow and frustrating,” said Bill [...]
- Aug24
WRAL Spin On Sen Soles Shooting, Some History!
WRAL is portraying Sen RC Soles’ shooting incident on Sunday as almost heroic. A man who witnessed a state senator shooting an intruder Sunday said Monday that the senator was trying to defend himself. Of note, the “witness” is a former client of Soles (as is the man he shot) named BJ Wright and had [...]